ARTexplains Science and History | Reading Your Mind with Disgust - Detecting Political Ideology @ARTexplains | Uploaded April 2018 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
The claim is that by using an fMRI scan to read the bloodflow in the human brain while that person is looking at a disgusting picture, scientists can predict with above 95% accuracy whether someone is more liberal or conservative in their political views. That is a BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent) claim, so let’s back up for a minute first. Why would that hypothesis even make sense in the first place?

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